| Valuable Possession 201101227 Min Ho Jung I have always valued memories, and my photo album is the object that helps me revisit them. The reason I value memories so much is that they are a part of who I am, and my life. Remembering them gives me warmth and a sense of who I truly am, and that reassures me. My first photo in my first photo album is a picture of the sonogram that my mother took when I was not even out in the world yet. Since then, my parents took numerous pictures of me and put together a number of photo albums to give to me when I grew up. Whenever I flip through my photo albums, I am thankful and amazed at how my parents were able to take all these photos and put them in a chronological order. As I look at the photos, some of them help me revive memories that I never recognized before. For instance, there was a photo of me around the age of 5, swimming in the ocean and wearing a blue bathing suit. I never remembered that I went scuba diving at Hawaii until I saw that photo. After I digested this new information, my memory started flooding in and I remembered the colorful fish and weird sea plants I saw underneath the water. Although this may sound strange, I felt I took a step closer to myself. Seeing the countless photos in my album sometimes makes me feel like I am a child again, and sometimes it helps me recognize my true self. Sometimes I feel a great mixture of feelings of happiness, longing, sadness, joyfulness that I can't recognize what I am feeling. Whatever emotions I feel, I always value my photo albums as it is a guide to my inner self.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012
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Main topic of Your essay seems that there is no more important thing than memory. Yeah, It's right. Memory is most valuable possession throughout our all life. And it is photo and album that make the memories maintaining.
ReplyDeleteI love the part of the essay that you are explaining the photo that you were swimming in the ocean in the Hawaii. It's expression is so vivid and lifeful that It seems that I am in the Hawaii.
I wrote about my camera, but you wrote about pictures and your album.
ReplyDeleteI think your writing is good.
Tonight, i will go to sleep after i see my old picture.
Valuable Possession
ReplyDelete201101227 Min Ho Jung
I have always valued memories, and my photo album is the object that helps me revisit them. The reason I value memories so much is that they are a part of who I am, and my life. Remembering them gives me warmth and a sense of who I truly am, and that reassures me. My first photo in my first photo album is a picture of the sonogram that my mother took when I was not even out in the world yet. Since then, my parents took numerous pictures of me and put together several photo albums to give to me when I grew up. Whenever I flip through my photo albums, I am thankful and amazed at how my parents were able to take all these photos and put them in a chronological order. As I look at the photos, some of them help me revive memories that I never recognized before. For instance, there was a photo of me around the age of 5, swimming in the ocean and wearing a blue bathing suit. I never remembered that I went scuba diving at Hawaii until I saw that photo. After I digested this new information, my memory started flooding in and I remembered the colorful fish and weird sea plants I saw underneath the water. Although this may sound strange, I felt I took a step closer to myself. Seeing the countless photos in my album can make me feel like I am a child again, and sometimes helps me acknowledge my true self when I am too caught up in reality to recognize it. There are times when I feel a great mixture of feelings of happiness, longing, sadness, joyfulness that I can’t recognize what I am feeling. Whatever emotions I feel, I always value my photo albums as it is a guide to my inner self.